Re: [block IO crash] Re: 2.6.39-rc5-git2 boot crashs

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Note that i reported similar problems early during this merge window, in this mail:
> 
>   [sporadic crash] blk: request botched
> 
> That sha1 was 89078d572eb9ce8d4c04264b8b0ba86de0d74c8f - that already had 
> lockless SLUB:
> 
>   e8c500c2b64b: Merge branch 'slub/lockless' into for-linus
> 
> I never managed to pin that down, these IO problems were very sporadic in my 
> test setup and never reproducible, until today.

So i'm doing a testrun now with a failing kernel with the patch below applied, 
to disable the SLUB lockless code.

	Ingo

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 94d2a33..27bc3be 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
 
 #include <trace/events/kmem.h>
 
+#undef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
+
 /*
  * Lock order:
  *   1. slab_lock(page)
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